The Seventh Day

With this, the universe was completed, including all of its vast array.

By the seventh day, God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

Humans in the Garden

These are the records of the universe at its creation. On the day that the Lord God made the universe,

no shrubs had yet grown in the meadows of the earth and no vegetation had sprouted, because the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there were no human beings to work the ground.

So the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.

The Lord God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.

The Lord God commanded the man: “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,

The Creation of the Woman

Later, the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him.”

After the Lord God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

so the Lord God caused a deep sleep to overshadow the man. When the man was asleep, he removed one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh where it had been.

Then the Lord God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

The Temptation and Fall

Now the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the Lord God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree of the garden’?”

“but as for the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You are not to eat from it, nor are you to touch it, or you will die.’”

“Even God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you’ll become like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the tree produced good food, was attractive in appearance, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate some, too.

When they heard the voice of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden during the breeze of the day, the man and his wife concealed themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

So the Lord God called out to the man, asking him, “Where are you?”

“Who told you that you are naked?” God asked. “Did you eat fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?”

Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What did you do?” “The Shining One misled me,” the woman answered, “so I ate.”

The Penalty of Sin

The Lord God told the Shining One, “Because you have done this, you are more cursed than all the livestock, and more than all the earth’s animals, You’ll crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.

The Lord God fashioned garments from animal skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Later, the Lord God said, “Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won’t reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever—”